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J. A. G'Uss.

GASHIERS AND SALESMANS CHECK BOOK. No. 310,508. Patnted Jan. 6, 1885 ow&massisz j *NVENTOR:

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JACOB A. GUSS, SPRING CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CASHIERS AND SALESMANS CHECK-BOOK.

CIFILOIPICATIOIT forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,508, dated January 6, 1885. Application filed September 5, 1883. (No model To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB A. GUss, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Spring City, in the county of Chester and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful In'iproven'ient in Cashiers and Salesmens Check-Books, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a perspective view of a cashiers and salesmans check-book embodying my invention.

The invention consists of a cashiers and salesmans checkbook the leaves whereof are each composed of a stub formed of a series'of columns, and a series of checks or sec-v tions arranged at a right angle to said columns, one under the other, with the separatingperf0 rations between the'several sections extending transversely, so that each section may be torn ol'i' by a single movement across the width of the leaf.

Referring to the drawing, A represents a check-book employed by cashiers and, sales men for keeping their accounts, the same consisting of leaves a, which are numbered consecutively, and each divided into sections lib, one above the other, which may be readily separated along the lines of perforations or depressions c, the sections being numbered 1, 2, 3, and at. At the top of the leaf is a stub, (2, divided into four columns, 6, which are arranged side by side across the leaf. Each section has a number, as atf, the same being that given to the salesman, Vfhen a sale is made, the amount thereof is written on the lower section, b, No. 1, and the latter is torn off and sent with the goods and money to the cashier. The salesman also marks on the column 6, No. 1, of the stub corresponding to the number of the section torn off the amount of the sales as his voucher. The next sale is marked on section b, No. 2, and likewise on column 0, No. 2, and thus the tally is kept, the salesman retaining the stub with the rec ord of sales, a counterpart of which is in the possession of the receiver or cashier, whereby there is a check on the cashier and salesman, and errors may be readily detected.

I am aware that it is not new to form a checkbook with stubs and checks or sections with perforations extending in two directions, so that it requires two motions to sever the section from the stubs, this being avoided by the arrangement of the sections in the transverse direction of the leaf at a right angle to the stubs, and forming the perforations in a corresponding direction. This also allows the clerk or salesman to write across the leaf and transfer his account to the stub without turning the book sidewise.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A cashiers and salesmans check-book the leaves whereof are each formed of a stub, (1, consisting of a series of columns, 6, and a se ries of checks or sections, Z), arranged at a right angle to said columns, one under the other, with the separating-perforations between the several'sections extending transversely, so that each section may be torn oii' by a single movement across the width of the leaf, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

J. A. GUSS.

Witnesses:

GEORGE SNYDER, WM, S, ESSIOK. 

